The Power Of Ted

During my teen years, there were some tough days. Being a kid that came from a difficult background, I mostly hid my emotions. I kept a tough face on during school, smiled and laughed in my conversations with girls, and smoked cigarettes at night to dull my senses.

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Self-Compassion For The Hustler

We need self-compassion for the hustler. The hustler is a smooth talking, peer pressure machine that starts with really easy questions and small asks, and works his way up to big questions and big asks. His trick is that he always makes it seem like his pitch is in the service of your well-being.

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Living With More Self-Compassion By Differentiating Wishes From Demands

It is actually a pretty common self-compassion theme to find people upset about their wishes not being fulfilled. They wish for things, and feel disappointed in their life prior to knowing about self-compassion, and then they internally do the dance of joy, when they hear that self-compassion involves active wishing.

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Self-Compassion For Impending Doom Syndrome

Self-Compassion is not only good for recognizing patterns. It is also good for interrupting them, when necessary. Not too long ago, I saw a man, who thought himself similar to the Biblical character known as Job.

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Self-Compassion For Selfishness

One of the great values of self-compassion is that it helps us gain a complete understanding of something. It frees us from our subjective perceptions, our desires, our perspectives, our need to be right.

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Self-Compassion For Getting Stuck On Your Ex

If there is a time for self-compassion, it is when you start to think about your ex.  The tough thing about dating is that viable partners are spaced so far between each other that it creates a feeling of scarcity, so sometimes we impulsively pick someone new without thinking about whether they are a really good fit, or we toil over the memory of our ex.

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